Chesnutt, Mary. A Diary from Dixie. Kindle. [Hard to find, but worth the search; not now available except from sellers who specialize in used and out-of-print books.]

Goodell, Jessica, and John Hearn. Shade it Black. [Memoir]

Aung San Suu Kyi. Letters from Burma. (The author is winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize)

“Mrs. Miniver,” a 1942 William Wyler film starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright. This film was based on a book of the same name written by Jan Struther.

Schultz, Katey. Flashes of War. Baltimore: Apprentice/Loyola U, 2013. Print. Winner of several awards, and for good reason – The collection of stories is exceptional. [Planning Skype visit between the author and my class.]

Wharton, Edith. A Son at the Front.

Williams, Kayla. Love my Rifle more than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army. [Iraq] [Memoir]

No, life does not always proceed as we have planned; sometimes the battles we fight and the wars we wage intervene, and indeed they did intervene in my life during the Fall of 2017. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to complete the class.

READ or VIEWED IN PREVIOUS CLASSES (Up to May 2017)

PRINTED TEXTS

Bonaldo, Mike. “You don’t want to look at your friend who has just been shot.” What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It. New York: Little, Brown. 222-227. Print.

I had also hoped to offer these titles in some future classes. They do not all address “war” in the traditional meaning of the word, but they do all tell of protracted, and intense, violent conflicts that mirror what most of us think of when we hear the word.

Baldwin, James. “My Dungeon Shook: A Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation.” Online. [Civil Rights]